*sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood*
Summary:
It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost hunter Cas Lowood can't move on.
His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live--not walk around half dead, pining for her. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.
Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep, and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong...These aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears. Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.
My Thoughts:
While this book is just as well written as the first and I got through it just as quick, it pales in comparison. The introduction of a secret order that Cas is descended from seemed rushed. While it was interesting, the idea just wasn't well developed.
I did really like how realistic Cas seemed throughout the book. Losing someone you love is really hard and you do really see them everywhere--just not in the same way that Cas does. I did really like Jestine (I wish we knew more about her) and I think it would be pretty cool to have a book with her as the narrator/main character someday, considering how the book ended.
In this book, Gideon was really different and it didn't feel right. In the first book, he was not just a mentor, he was also a friend to Cas, but this book just threw that out the window.
I would LOVE to have more books set in this world.
My Rating: 3 stars
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16 August 2020
01 July 2020
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake REVIEW
Summary:
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: he kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead-keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.
When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed every person who has dared step into the deserted Victorian house she used to call home.
But she, for whatever reason, spares his life.
My Thoughts:
I actually bought the sequel without realizing that it was a sequel last year, so I borrowed this book from my library. It was just as good as I hoped.
Cas is one of the few male narrators in books that I have actually liked. His father was killed when he was young and he secretly plans to get revenge once he gets enough experience to do so. What he doesn't know, is that he'll get revenge a lot sooner than he thinks. It turns out Anna is just a scared girl who was cursed to stay in the house and kill everyone, and that she never wanted to in the first place. The romance between Cas and Anna is so well written, although I wish the author explored their relationship a bit more.
Overall, I absolutely LOVED this book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes reading/watching things about the paranormal.
*also, it's definitely NOT a children's book. It is implied that Anna's stepfather did things to her, as well as other things that would be spoilers*
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: he kills the dead.
So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead-keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.
When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed every person who has dared step into the deserted Victorian house she used to call home.
But she, for whatever reason, spares his life.
My Thoughts:
I actually bought the sequel without realizing that it was a sequel last year, so I borrowed this book from my library. It was just as good as I hoped.
Cas is one of the few male narrators in books that I have actually liked. His father was killed when he was young and he secretly plans to get revenge once he gets enough experience to do so. What he doesn't know, is that he'll get revenge a lot sooner than he thinks. It turns out Anna is just a scared girl who was cursed to stay in the house and kill everyone, and that she never wanted to in the first place. The romance between Cas and Anna is so well written, although I wish the author explored their relationship a bit more.
Overall, I absolutely LOVED this book. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes reading/watching things about the paranormal.
*also, it's definitely NOT a children's book. It is implied that Anna's stepfather did things to her, as well as other things that would be spoilers*
My Rating: 4.5 stars
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